Hans-Joachim Fischer (lawyer)

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Hans-Joachim (Jochen) Fischer (born July 20, 1904 in Varel ; † September 16, 2000 in Oldenburg ) was a German lawyer , National Socialist politician and senator in Bremen .

biography

After attending secondary school in Oldenburg, Fischer passed his Abitur in 1922. He then did voluntary military service in the Reichswehr . He then completed a law degree at the universities of Tübingen and Münster until 1926. In the 1920s, his political attitude was German national . From 1920 to 1923 he was involved with the Bismarck Youth , where he was local group leader, and then with the Wiking Association . He was an active nationalist corps student . In June 1929 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. As a trainee lawyer, he worked, among other things, in the law practice of Johann Heinrich Böhmcker in Eutin .

Because of Böhmcker's advertising, he joined the NSDAP in September 1929 and initially sat at the Varel branch of the Investigation and Arbitration Committee (USchlA), where he was political director and head of the legal department from 1930 to 1932. He became local group leader in 1931 and held this position until 1937. He was also deputy district leader at the NS- Rechtsswahrerbund and 1934/34 district legal office manager (NSDAP district Lübeck province). Fischer became a member of the SA of the National Socialists in 1931 and rose to this NS organization at the end of January 1942 up to the Oberführer of the SA.

In addition to Fischer's political development, Böhmcker also promoted Fischer's professional career. After completing his legal internship, Fischer worked as a lawyer in Varel. At the beginning of the Nazi era , he headed the state police in Eutin in 1934. Initially a government assessor , he became a member of the government in Eutin at the beginning of January 1935 and finally, at the end of December 1935, he became a regional councilor (administrative law councilor) for the province of Westphalia in Münster .

After Böhmcker became the governing mayor of Bremen in 1937 , he brought him up for discussion as interior senator for the vacant position. Fischer was appointed Senator for Internal Administration on April 1, 1939. He was concerned with the fourth ordinance on the reconstruction of the Reich - the territorial reform around Bremen - of November 1, 1939. When Senator and SS group leader Hans Haltermann was deployed in the Eastern Territories, Fischer also took over the Senate Department for Labor and Technology. He was also Reich Defense Officer for Bremen and therefore responsible for the construction of bunker systems . As Senator for the Interior and Labor, Fischer was largely responsible for the deployment of concentration camp prisoners.

Through Gauleiter Paul Wegener , he became regional president of the Osnabrück administrative district and Reich Defense Commissioner of the Weser-Ems Gau in July 1944 . Together with the acting mayor of Bremen Richard Duckwitz , he spoke out in favor of a surrender of Bremen, but Gauleiter Wegener and the combat commandant General Fritz Becker pushed through the tragic and unconditional struggle for the city on April 21, 1945.

After his release from office in May 1945, Fischer was in a detention center of the Allies . After a lengthy denazification process , he was established as a lawyer in the joint practice Voet and Fischer, and later as a lawyer and notary in a law firm in Oldenburg.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 204. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16)
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. , Münster 2004, p. 148
  2. ^ Member of the Corps Franconia Tübingen ; Kösener corps lists 1960, 127 , 854.
  3. Hartmut Müller and Günther Rohdenburg (eds.): End of war in Bremen , p. 39; Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-265-9 .
  4. The National Socialist Interior Senator as a “fellow traveler” . In: Bremen History . August 6, 2016 ( bremen-history.de ).